Nearly one-third of Palestinians believe in “armed struggle and military solutions” to the conflict with Israel, an increase from two years ago.
The percentage of Palestinians who say they believe in violent means rose to 32 percent from 25 percent in 2013, according to a Gallup survey released Monday. Some 52 percent of respondents say they believe “mostly in nonviolent forms of resistance and negotiation,” down from 62 percent in the earlier poll.
Some 64 percent of Palestinians say that relations between Palestinians and Israelis are getting worse, 6 percent say they are improving and 26 percent say they are staying the same. The numbers have remained steady over the last two years.
The face-to-face survey of 1,000 residents of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip aged 15 and over were conducted between May 24 and June 17, before the spate of Palestinian attacks against Jewish-Israelis began two months ago and the resulting Israeli attempt to stem the violence. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percent.
— JTA
A Palestinian protester throws a firebomb during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Al-Ram, near Ramallah, on September 27, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90
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